tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23677914169984688522012-01-29T18:51:25.235ZHi everybody, I'm Francesco Russo and, obviously, this is my blog. I do not believe this will be one of those really popular blogs on the Net, so I'm going to use it merely as box for dropping in scattered thoughts, memories, experiences and so... well, yes, a mess ;) If you want to find out other information about me and my activities, you can take a look at this website too: http://russo.fr.googlepages.com Bye, F.fruxohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262068448354700444noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367791416998468852.post-3921092615331348452009-03-19T17:32:00.002Z2009-03-19T17:40:23.358Z

This year on 8th February I've given a Lightning Talk at FOSDEM '09 about JTR (Java Test Runner), one of my open source projects.It has been an introductory speech aimed at providing the audience with the widest possible panorama of the features delivered by the project.Waiting for the wonderful FOSDEM staff to complete the video post-processing step, here are the slides I created and used for

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Il Passo Silenzioso della NeveSenza Origine

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Questa notte è morta Valetina Giovagnini a causa di un incidente stradale avvenuto nel pomeriggio di ieri. da La Repubblicada Il Messaggeroda Il Mattinoda Arezzo Notizieda In ToscanaAlcune sue immagini e canzoni trovate in rete. Nel primo video che segue, del 15 nov. 2008, rivela di avere in preparazione un nuovo lavoro."Il Passo Silenzioso della Neve" da San Remo 2002, brano rivelazione."Senza

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Google promotes diversity because from different experiences and distinct point of view can arise good idea: diversity is creativity's cradle.To celebrate the Transgender Remembrance Day Google has posted an interesting insight on how diversity can be an asset:"November 20th marks Transgender Remembrance Day, which takes on a special significance in a world awakening to the need for unity among

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g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.Really cool! Who knows which kind of applications will first take advantage of such groundbreaking interaction paradigms?!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7704673.stmIt is absolutely funny, though quite scary in some sense... Congrats to the guys on Montreal Radio. Gosh, it would be great if something like that happened here in Italy right before the last elections we've had... what could have happened?! :PCheers.

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Today Pink Floyd's self-taught pianist and keyboardist Richard Wright has left the scenes. Here is a video taken in the late '60 capturing Pink Floyd playing "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" a song in which keyboards play a really central role and "Let there be more Light", them both taken from their second album.And here one of Richard Wright most recent appearances playing with David

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There's not so much to say about it... simply put it's one week since Andrea has left his position in our department. Hope we'll find a way to work together again soon ;)Good luck Andrea

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Yesterday in San Francisco the latest Apple keynote has taken place. Whoever has followed the news (ops,the rumors I should have said maybe) since the former Apple event that introduced the iPhone 3G until today, has surely heard/read worrying gossips about Steve Jobs health status.It is funny/reassuring to reckon the very first slide has been the one you can see above :).The keynote has not

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Today I've met for the first time after the summer holidays an old friend of mine, Stefano, a guy I always love to share ideas with. We have covered a lot of topics, ranging from our own private lives to our expectations of things to come both in the near and remote future, music, arts, cinema and obviously computer science.He is a truly sharp guy, and every time with talk to each-other something

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This first video is (unlikely) a partial footage of Pink Floyd performing what is in my humble opinion the very best musical suite ever written in the 20th century, Atom Hearth Mother. It was shot in the early '70s in Saint Tropez. I think this is a quite interesting performance since the band is not backed by the full ensamble of orchestra and choirs. To cope with this limitation David Gilmour

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There's really nothing more to say but listening to these historical tunes. This is the very first time I can listen to a live-version of Atom Heart Mother. Unlikely there is "only" David from the original line-up, but it is still worthy listening to this small fragment. I just envy those lucky ones that have had the chance to be there...Ops, another interesting thing: the band he's playing with

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The iPhone/iPod Touch SDK is gradually taking its way into main stream development for high-end mobile devices. Waiting to see what the Open Handset Alliance is going to deliver within the next year thanks to the Android platform, I felt necessary and interesting diving into Apple's SDK.Once it was published some weeks ago I found out it was entirely Objective-C based, thus I decided to start

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To help the movement go here.

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It's quite late and I'm pretty tired, so I am just going to paste here the URL pointing to an Official Google Blog entry that sounds fantastic to me. I can bet there's not speculation in that, even more because the blogger is Larry Page in person...http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/towards-more-renewable-energy.htmlGoogle's commitment to innovation in the production of renewable energy at

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Yesterday Google Inc., following the announcement of the constitution of the Open Handset Alliance, finally released the official SDK for developing next-generation mobile applications: Andorid!It's truly amazing and thrilling for a bunch of different reasons. Android is based on Linux 2.6, comes with a set of C/C++ libraries mainly for OpenGL implementation, SQLite data-store and so on, but the

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It's a few hours my first album "The 7-th month" is online. As you can see on the right there is a Last.fm playlist player featuring all the songs of the album, along with other artists' works.This album dates back to 2003 though a few songs are even older. I had both the honor and pleasure to play and recorder it with Sarah Pizzolato (voice) and Gloria Armaroli (drums)... well, obviously I

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Reading docs on the Net I found this wonderful statement...How can the computer know what is right without human-labeled data?The same way scientists have been doing it for hundreds of years. It's called Occham's Razor. The simplest (or most likely) explanation is generally the best, and even though we can't know that it's true, it is quite useful for predicting new and unobserved data.

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Ever heard about Google.org? Well, they use to define themselves as follows:"Google.org aspires to use the power of information to help people better their lives. We are an experiment in active philanthropy. In addition to financial resources, we are fortunate to be able to engage Google’s entire family of people and partners, information technologies and other resources to address three major

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Yesterday we have lived a moment of true democracy, one of the few I can remember till today.In cities and towns (180 locations) all along the country, and in at least 30 foreign cities, men, womens, citizens, all stood up to take part to the first V-Day ever!The V-Day has been a really great initiative in both essence and form, everything has happened peacefully everywhere, but I have a regret

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Just a few hours ago one of the greatest experiences of my whole young life got completed, and the ceremony was served by four witchy girls, the MAB.As all the greatest things, the Fate planned for this passion to arise giving a completely new perspective to the months to come and dramatically widening the spectrum of music styles I am fond of. Though it's summer and the sun burns, it is now time

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Sorry for the ones who do not speak italian, these words might suit many other countries' needs too...Thanks to Franco Battiato for these precious lyrics.

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On July 20th, in Ferrara (Italy), Carmen Consoli has had a great gig in front of an excited crowd, but this time I was on the other side, I was on the stage!!! This is just one of the (sadly said!) few photos I got during the gig... unlikely I left my camera at home 'coz I was not expecting to follow the full gig right from the stage this time, so I used my smart-phone as replacement... anyway

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One week ago my girlfriend Valeria told me about a musician she was interested in. She only had a clipping taken years ago from a magazine and was interested in listening to her rather than reading about her.Well, this pretty mysterious girl is called Emiliana Torrini, and completely captured the both of us with her smooth and gentle voice.I have been particularly glad to find out a well-played

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About one week ago I was struggling at work with a really strange scalability issue on the back-end system I'm responsible of.Once a system looks like frozen and does not react it could be possible it has been somehow somewhere deadlocked.Thus I asked the JVM about the presence of any deadlocked threads, and the answer has been:Found one Java-level deadlock:============================="Thread-11

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Today I'm going to write this post in english. It's about JTR again. Finally I've been able to publish the final 4.0 release. Achieving this release has been a pretty cumbersome effort actually, but it has been funny and instructive in many ways.I've published a JTR 4.0 final availability article on The Server Side this week, and it appeared on the main page yesterday. The full article can be

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Today I'm going to write this post in english. It's about JTR again. Finally I've been able to publish the final 4.0 release. Achieving this release has been a pretty cumbersome effort actually, but it has been funny and instructive in many ways.I've published a JTR 4.0 final availability article on The Server Side this week, and it appeared on the main page yesterday. The full article can be

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Dopo poco più di un anno di creatività convogliata in uno dei miei progetti Open Source, vale a dire JTR (http://jtrunner.sourceforge.net), finalmente ho ritenuto fosse giunto il momento di pubblicarlo come RC-1 (Release Candidate 1).Il risultato è stato davvero entusiasmante per me, poiché dopo tanti mesi di ritagli di tempo e prove ho avuto modo di introdurre in JTR (ormai giunto alla versione

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Prima delle presentazioni intendo cominciare con qualcosa di succulento ed interessante... premetto, riporto sia la sorgente da cui la lettera è tratta, sia la sua intera copia per comodità di consultazione. Il link serve quanto meno come riferimento alla fonte che, sicuramente, può essere ritenuta attendibile....(22 Maggio 2007) http://www.beppegrillo.it/Ecco il testo integrale"Caro Beppe,

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